Preaching the Blues
Chicago Calling - The Life and Sound of Cyril Davies - D. Todd Allen
D. Todd Allen [+]
Music journalist and scholar
D. Todd Allen has been an avid researcher of popular music for the last twenty years and has contributed to a variety of websites, radio programmes, CBS Sunday Morning television, Mojo and Record Collector magazines, and several documentary films and books on the history of British blues. Todd lives and works in Canada on the beautiful Bay of Fundy coastline.
Description
1963 pt1: The R&B All Stars; Davies was a hard man who rejected any compromise to his musical approach. At this point he preferred faithful re-creations of Chicago-style blues without embellishments, and once told Melody Maker, "If you like, I'm a purist. I don't like to see the music messed about. I like it straight."